Article history: Received 5 April 2016 Received in revised form 14 September 2016 Accepted 15 September 2016 Available online 15 September 2016 In 2013, San Francisco was one of eight sites funded by Partnership for a Healthier America to implement Play Streets, a smaller-scale Open Streets-type initiative, aimed at increasing physical activity (PA) among children and youth by closing neighborh...

1364 From late 1930, lethal genes have been used as ge netic markers to detect concealed variation in Droso phila populations [1–4]. In order to study lethal genes a lethal balanced strain is required. This strain is a ge netic construction involving a pair of homologous chromosomes with the following characteristics: they have to contain natural or induced chromosomal in versions to block reco...

OBJECTIVE Guided Care (GC) is a model of proactive, evidence-based comprehensive healthcare provided by physician-nurse teams for people with several chronic health conditions. Our objective was to evaluate the preliminary effects of GC on health service utilization and costs. STUDY DESIGN Cluster-randomized controlled trial of GC involving 14 primary care teams (49 physicians) and 904 of the...

INFLUENCES OF EARLY CHILD CHARACTERISTICS AND HEALTH ON LATERPARENT AND PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP FACTORSbyJENNIFER DEGROOT HANAWALTDecember 2012Advisor: Dr. Ty Partridge Major: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyThe aim of this study was to evaluate ways in which infant temperament and healthdifficulties influence maternal characteristics over the ...

Deep pressure ulcers are caused by sustained mechanical loading and involve skeletal muscle tissue injury. The exact underlying mechanisms are unclear, and the prevalence is high. Our hypothesis is that the aetiology is dominated by cellular deformation (Bouten et al. in Ann Biomed Eng 29:153-163, 2001; Breuls et al. in Ann Biomed Eng 31:1357-1364, 2003; Stekelenburg et al. in J App Physiol 100...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine the relationship between level of education, lifestyle, and morbidity in two groups of male white collar workers, and to determine whether any differences found could be related to objective differences in working conditions. DESIGN The study was a survey of a random sample of commercial travellers and a sample of men with sedentary occupations, represen...

The growth of Listeria monocytogenes WSLC 1364, originating from a cheese-borne outbreak, was examined in the presence and in the absence of a pediocin AcH-producing Lactobacillus plantarum strain on red smear cheese. Nearly complete inhibition was observed at 10(2) CFU of L. monocytogenes per ml of salt brine solution, while contamination with Listeria mutants resistant to pediocin resulted in...